Buch, Englisch, 336 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 464 g
Buch, Englisch, 336 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 464 g
ISBN: 978-0-19-927588-5
Verlag: OUP Oxford
In dealing with a wide range of aspects of the life, activities, and customs of the Late Bronze Age Hittite world, this book complements the treatment of Hittite military and political history presented by the author in The Kingdom of the Hittites (OUP, 1998). It aims to convey to the reader a sense of what it was like to live amongst the people of the Hittite world, to participate in their celebrations, to share their crises, to meet them in the streets of the
capital or in their homes, to experience the sights, sounds, and smells of a healing ritual, to attend an audience with the Great King, and to follow his progress in festival processions to the holy places of the Hittite land. Through quotations from the original sources and through the word pictures to
which these give rise, the book aims at recreating, as far as is possible, the daily lives and experiences of a people who for a time became the supreme political and military power in the ancient Near East.
Zielgruppe
The book should be of interest and value to readers at a range of specialist and non-specialist levels. It should serve as: a standard reference work for Hittite scholars, a more general reference work for other Near Eastern scholars, a text for undergraduate and postgraduate students of Near Eastern studies, people interested in the ancient near Eastern civilizations. The anthropological approach will particularly recommend the book to American university courses. The inclusion of matters of relevance to biblical scholars will appeal to the biblical studies market.
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Fachgebiete
- Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturen sonstiger Sprachräume Literaturen des Alten Orients
- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Altorientalische Geschichte & Archäologie
- Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte Religionen des Alten Orients
